A/ They say the Bat Woman Shi Zhengli got RaTG13 from a copper mine in Yunnan and, after a bit of modification, inserted the furin cleavage site to make it the SarsCoV-2 virus. I have actually proved in my reports that this is not true.
Yunnan is in the west, but the real virus comes from the east, Zhoushan. It's just a way of diverting attention from the role of the Chinese military. It is the People's Liberation Army that found Zhoushan bat coronaviruses ZC45 and ZXC21 in 2017 in the east of China and it is these viruses that come closest to Sars-CoV-2.
These were live viruses. They got them live and kept them live. This was published in their paper at the end of 2017 and it mentioned that these viruses could infect rat brain. I got to know this in January 2020 when I checked the virus sequence.
If Sars-CoV-2 was natural, the E protein (Envelop protein) would definitely have had some changes in the genome as it moved from bats to humans. However, SarsCoV-2 has the same identical E protein as ZC45/ZXC21 viruses. So, this is definitely a 'Smoking Gun.'
After the Sars1 outbreak in 2003, China realized that coronaviruses could be used to develop a novel bio-weapon. The head of China’s Centers for Disease Control, George Gao, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences organised a collaboration project from 2010 to 2017 to search for a novel animal virus. The WIV lab and Chinese military labs were part of it.
They looked at coronaviruses, dengue virus, zika virus, mice virus and bat virus to cause brain hemorrhage and fever, and hoped to find at least two to three types of new viruses every year. Interestingly, we have seen millions of people suffering from neurological illnesses after contracting Covid-19.
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